The article Community Collaborations by Todd Campbell he clearly defines "community collaborations as circumstances that partner teachers, students, and community members in an effort to better understand the natural world." He explains that through the National Science Standards is assurance that community collaborations can be meaningful in that they state "to engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about matters of scientific and technological concern.” What he is getting at here is that with help from the standards and putting community action into place students will receive intellect from and within the community. Campbell introduces the importance of teaching in a way that coincides with the Science, Technology and Society approach or "STS" approach. In doing this the National Science Teachers Association in 2006 concluded that students who are being taught in such a way acquire and improve on creativity skills, attitude toward science, use of science concepts and processes in their daily living, and in responsible personal decision-making. Some useful examples of how community collaborations are performed include when teachers and students partner up with a scientist and engage in his or her field work, or even to the extent of being able to use authentic scientific equipment, resources and or techniques actually used in prestigious scientific labs.
Campbell makes it clear that community collaboration is not a "one size fits all" phenomena, but is better describes as it coincides with the National Science Standards. Through the standards used in this study Campbell would like the students to participate in instructional strategies which will engage students in scientific inquiry to increase students’ understanding of science, gain a better understanding of the nature of science, and brighten their interests and attitude toward science overall.
The main idea of this article is to get teachers to understand that they shouldn't instruct and condone science in a way that makes scientists look like 'databots'. Databots are people that go along with what they are told when it comes to an experiment and just gather and input data. They don't really think for themselves and never ask questions. Campbell wants students to really start thinking for themselves and have teachers always usiong scientific inquiry as a tool to help them learn through living. He wants students to understand the basis of procedures and become producers of knowledge. One quotation that really stuck out was when Todd Campbell stated that "community collaborations engage participants in 'living,' through experiences that push them to create, design, collect data, analyze data, make conclusions based on data, and share their conclusions with wider audiences."
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I fully agree with what Todd Campbell is getting at. Learning through exploration is the greatest way to actually engage in any type of learning, especially in science. Everything within this field could become more hands-on and inquiry based. Teachers need to realize that and understand that lecturing to students and falling subject to the world of academia is a concoction for disaster. The point of becoming an educator in a content area such as science goes far beyond reading from the book, doing a research paper or taking data from a textbook experiment. It's about getting into the topic, learning what you can do to find the best results, asking questions and forming one's own hypothesis and actually trying to come up with one's own procedure. Like Campbell explained it's about viewing education as a process or living, or in other terms learning from doing.
Community Collaborations by Todd Campbell
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The article Community Collaborations by Todd Campbell he clearly defines "community collaborations as circumstances that partner teachers, students, and community members in an effort to better understand the natural world." He explains that through the National Science Standards is assurance that community collaborations can be meaningful in that they state "to engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about matters of scientific and technological concern.” What he is getting at here is that with help from the standards and putting community action into place students will receive intellect from and within the community. Campbell introduces the importance of teaching in a way that coincides with the Science, Technology and Society approach or "STS" approach. In doing this the National Science Teachers Association in 2006 concluded that students who are being taught in such a way acquire and improve on creativity skills, attitude toward science, use of science concepts and processes in their daily living, and in responsible personal decision-making. Some useful examples of how community collaborations are performed include when teachers and students partner up with a scientist and engage in his or her field work, or even to the extent of being able to use authentic scientific equipment, resources and or techniques actually used in prestigious scientific labs.
Campbell makes it clear that community collaboration is not a "one size fits all" phenomena, but is better describes as it coincides with the National Science Standards. Through the standards used in this study Campbell would like the students to participate in instructional strategies which will engage students in scientific inquiry to increase students’ understanding of science, gain a better understanding of the nature of science, and brighten their interests and attitude toward science overall.
The main idea of this article is to get teachers to understand that they shouldn't instruct and condone science in a way that makes scientists look like 'databots'. Databots are people that go along with what they are told when it comes to an experiment and just gather and input data. They don't really think for themselves and never ask questions. Campbell wants students to really start thinking for themselves and have teachers always usiong scientific inquiry as a tool to help them learn through living. He wants students to understand the basis of procedures and become producers of knowledge. One quotation that really stuck out was when Todd Campbell stated that "community collaborations engage participants in 'living,' through experiences that push them to create, design, collect data, analyze data, make conclusions based on data, and share their conclusions with wider audiences."
Reactions:
I fully agree with what Todd Campbell is getting at. Learning through exploration is the greatest way to actually engage in any type of learning, especially in science. Everything within this field could become more hands-on and inquiry based. Teachers need to realize that and understand that lecturing to students and falling subject to the world of academia is a concoction for disaster. The point of becoming an educator in a content area such as science goes far beyond reading from the book, doing a research paper or taking data from a textbook experiment. It's about getting into the topic, learning what you can do to find the best results, asking questions and forming one's own hypothesis and actually trying to come up with one's own procedure. Like Campbell explained it's about viewing education as a process or living, or in other terms learning from doing.